What is minerals.What is ore. define it briefly
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MINERAL is a solid, naturally occurring inorganic substance....
ORE is a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be extracted profitably....
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Minerals are naturally occurring inorganic compounds which have a definite chemical composition and internal atomic structures.
A mineral:
- Is naturally occurring
- Is a solid (at room temperature)
- Is inorganic (mostly)
- Has a fixed chemical formula
- Has an orderly crystalline structure
Each mineral has a particular chemical make up. While most minerals are compounds of two or more elements, some minerals are made up of a single element. Gold, silver and copper are called native elements and occur in nature in relatively pure form.
Most Common Mineral of the Crust. If you consider it as one mineral, feldspar is the most common mineral and quartz comes in second, especially when you consider the whole crust (continental plus oceanic). Feldspar is called a group of minerals only for the convenience of geologists.
An Ore is a naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be extracted profitably. Ore refers to the original material mined before it is processed. Take for example copper ore, a copper ore will have about 3% copper when just mined. This ore will then be processed during which time some waste will be removed thus increasing the copper content to about 30% for concentrate which is later smelted to 98% and finally refined to 99.99% copper cathode.
Many metallic ores occur as sulfide minerals. Examples of sulfide minerals are galena (lead sulfide, PbS), sphalerite (zinc sulfide, ZnS), covellite (copper sulfide, CuS), or pyrite (iron sufide, FeS2). These sufide minerals crystallize from the ore-forming fluids at fairly high temperatures.
Ores are minerals that have a high concentration of a certain element, typically a metal. Examples are cinnabar (HgS), an ore of mercury, sphalerite (ZnS), an ore of zinc, or cassiterite (SnO2), an ore of tin (Mineral).